Strict lockdown or status quo? Faced with the worsening of Covid-19 epidemic markers everywhere in France, and in particular in the three hardest-hit regions, Île-de-France included, this Monday March 15, 2021 French President Emmanuel Macron said he will – along with his government – “undoubtedly make new decisions in the coming days” to curb the spread of Covid-19. He also confirms these restrictions will be made “in a fitted and proportionate fashion”. The scenario of a strict, 24/7 lockdown is considered.
With this in mind, this warning is meaningful to stop the new outbreak of the Covid-19 and its mutations epidemic in the hardest-hit regions. In Île-de-France, the hospital pressure worsens by the hour, as “a Covid patient is hospitalized in ICU every 12 minute”, as Health Minister Olivier Véran explained a few days ago. Asked about the necessity of another lockdown in Île-de-France, Macron says it is about considering “the reality of the epidemic, city by city, territory by territory”, reminding on the occasion that this is what they “are doing” with the government.
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Furthermore, the French President addressed the government’s strategy on that very matter. “We all have to conciliate between several dimensions of the life of our nation: protecting the weakest, […] protecting our healthcare system, protecting against the distress that goes with the fact one might be isolated, […] protecting while teaching our young and our young need it, protecting while enabling economic and social life to go on. We must take this ensemble together at any moment, constantly in a fitted and proportionate fashion”, the head of state told BFMTV.
Covid: incidence rate of over 400 in Île-de-France, containment this week?
Despite the progression of the coronavirus epidemic, Île-de-France has escaped weekend confinement until now. But as the region's incidence rate passed the decisive milestone of 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants this Monday, March 15, 2021, Paris and all Ile-de-France residents could find themselves confined again as early as this week. [Read more]
